bagpipe

[ bag-pahyp ]

noun
  1. Often bagpipes. a reed instrument consisting of a melody pipe and one or more accompanying drone pipes protruding from a windbag into which the air is blown by the mouth or a bellows.

verb (used with object),bag·piped, bag·pip·ing.
  1. Nautical. to back (a fore-and-aft sail) by hauling the sheet to windward.

Origin of bagpipe

1
First recorded in 1300–50, bagpipe is from the Middle English word baggepipe.See bag, pipe1

Other words from bagpipe

  • bagpiper, noun

Words Nearby bagpipe

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How to use bagpipe in a sentence

  • He played bagpipes and thought he could busk his way up there and back.

    Tragedy in Baffin Bay | jversteegh | February 14, 2022 | Outside Online
  • Over the next few years, Kevin actually got to Alaska with his bagpipes, and then he wrote a nonfiction book about the adventure.

    Tragedy in Baffin Bay | jversteegh | February 14, 2022 | Outside Online
  • A window was open, through which his bagpipe might have been seen hanging to a nail upon the wall.

    Toilers of the Sea | Victor Hugo
  • The camp-fire still blazed; near it a bagpipe crooned; now and again a horse shook in its harness.

    The Yeoman Adventurer | George W. Gough
  • He played extremely well on the Northumberland bagpipe, and his neighbour was a good performer on the flageolet.

    Wanderings in South America | Charles Waterton
  • The wild wail of a bagpipe smote the air and the four boon companions rushed to the window.

    The Incendiary | W. A. (William Augustine) Leahy
  • In one instance, the head of Luther is represented as the Devil's bagpipe; he blows into his ear, and uses his nose as a chanter.

British Dictionary definitions for bagpipe

bagpipe

/ (ˈbæɡˌpaɪp) /


noun
  1. (modifier) of or relating to the bagpipes: a bagpipe maker

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